Suggestions+for+Student+Activities


 * Ways of Teaching Historical Significance**


 * //Activity://**

Using the Grade 5 Foundation document give a specific content example for each type of activity listed below.

· Hierarchies - grade in order of importance //Example: Rank in order of importance the five identified factors leading to the decision of colonies to join Confederation.//

· Precis - explain or describe in words, map, graph

· Isolation - assess its part in the wider context

· Counter - Possibilities - what might have happened if circumstances were different?

· Comparisons - of historical significance of two or more events

· Why something is historically significant - Why might they be seen as significant?


 * Remember:**

Some things are more significant. A subjective judgment must be made. Minor causes can produce significant results. Some can be more significant at some times than others. You need criteria to assign significance. There is no one set of significant and true facts. Significance happens usually because of relationships to other things.

Historical Significance

Agenda for April 25